Mgr. Veronika Bláhová

The Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Hybernská 8, 110 00 Praha 1
Tel. +420 221 403 917
Email: blahova@praha.psu.cas.cz

ORCID iD

CURRENT SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

Psycholinguistics, processing of grammatical structure
Language acquisition, the development of grammatical knowledge
Tools for assessing grammar and language development

EDUCATION

2007 – 2010	BA in Psychology program (Psychology and Special Education), Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague Thesis: Vztah mezi porozuměním gramatice a vývojem slovní zásoby v raném věku
2011 – 2012	MA in Special Education, Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague Thesis: Porozumění českým větám u dětí s rizikem dyslexie a se SLI (Comprehension of sentences in Czech children with familiar risk of dyslexia and SLI)
2011 – 2014	MA in Psychology, Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague Thesis: Vliv aktuálního členění na porozumění větám u dětí (The influence of information structure on sentence comprehension in children)
Since 2012	Postgraduate study in Psychology, Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague

PROFFESIONAL PRACTICE

2011	Research assistant, international project - ELDEL, Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague
2011–2013	Researcher, project GA UK 3649/2011, Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague
Since 2007	Research assistant at the Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

RESEARCH PROJECTS FUNDED BY GRANT AGENCIES

2011 – 2013	Early literacy development and its variability in children at risk of learning disabilities Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague co-investigator, (GA UK 3649/2011)
2013 – 2016	The acquisition of Czech grammar: rules, context and theory of mind Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences, Prague co-investigator (GA ČR P407/13/26779S)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BLÁHOVÁ, V., MEDŘICKÁ, T. (2013). Variabilita vývoje počáteční čtenářské gramotnosti u dětí s rizikem dyslexie. In: LAUFKOVÁ, Veronika, MORAOVÁ, Hana a MEDŘICKÁ, Tereza (eds). Metodologické přístupy v pedagogických a psychologických doktorských výzkumech: recenzovaný sborník z doktorské konference konané dne 20. května 2013 v Praze. Praha: PedF UK.

POSTERS

BLÁHOVÁ, V. (2013). Sentence comprehension in children with familial risk of dyslexia and children with SLI. Poster presented at the Czech & Slovak Psychological conference Ph.D Existence III, May 2013, Olomouc, Czech Republic.

BLÁHOVÁ, V., SMOLÍK, F. (2013). Early comprehension of verb number morphemes in Czech: evidence for a pragmatic account. Poster presented at the Boston University Conference of Language Development, November 2013, Boston, MASS.

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